Find which blog posts bring paying customers
Use entry pages, revenue sorting and a couple of goals to see which articles turn readers into customers, and which only bring traffic.
Pageviews say which posts are popular. Revenue says which posts pay for themselves. Trakily can show both side by side for every page a visit started on.
Start with entry pages
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Pick a long range, such as Last 6 months. Blog revenue builds up slowly.
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In the Pages card, open the Entry page tab: the page each session started on.
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Click Revenue in the legend to sort by revenue, then View all and search for
/blog/. The table shows visitors, revenue, conversion rate and revenue per visitor for each post.
Click a post to filter the dashboard to sessions that started there. The Sources card then shows where those readers came from (usually Organic Search), and the Journey tab shows the customers among them.
Add search keywords
Connect Google Search Console. The Keyword tab in the Sources card then lists search queries with an estimated revenue each, calculated by splitting each landing page's Google revenue across the queries that sent clicks to it.
Measure the steps in between
Most readers don't buy on their first visit. Two goals show whether a post is doing its job before revenue arrives:
<!-- At the end of each post: did they read it? --> <div data-trakily-scroll="read_post" data-trakily-scroll-post="how-to-price-a-saas"></div> <!-- The call to action inside the post --> <a href="/auth/signup" data-trakily-goal="blog_cta" data-trakily-goal-post="how-to-price-a-saas">Try it free</a>
Filter to a post's entry page and compare read_post and blog_cta counts with its visitors. See Scroll goals and Goals.
How credit works for slow buyers
Revenue in breakdowns goes to the session that led to the payment. A reader who discovers you through a post and comes back a week later through your homepage is credited to the homepage visit for that payment. To see the full picture for a post, filter to it as the entry page and open the Journey tab: each customer's timeline lists their earlier visits.
Two posts with similar traffic can look very different here: one with many readers and no customers, another with fewer readers and several customers in the Journey tab. The second is the one to update, link to and write follow-ups for.
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